It's supposed to be fixed soon, but in the meantime, trolls' favorite targets are once again suffering the typical onslaught. On the plus side, Twitter on Monday also said it would be offering a "mute" function - the same thing it tried to do in December, but this time around, it seems to be doing it right.

Michelle Chapman, thought to be the first person in the UK to have been prosecuted for such a crime, confessed to taking out fake profiles in family members' names and sending herself hundreds of abusive messages, often of a "very unpleasant sexual nature".

User outrage has forced the company to do an about-face on a blocking policy change that allowed blocked users to continue to follow their targets, interact with their Tweets, receive their updates in their timeline and let their friends harass the victim.

His stunts included cooking up stealth accounts, bidding up items and then refusing to pay, after which he leaves nasty reviews.

For those sins, a Detroit man is being condemned by media (without a trial) and by a reporter who didn't bother to find out if any of his stunts were actually illegal. (Not to belittle the harassment committed by the person.)

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